From DC Shown Sent Sun, Oct 26th 1997, 05:10
From DC Shown Sent Sun, Oct 26th 1997, 05:10
I tend to agree with your statements, I often love just walking to work in the morning and layering the different sounds of the city into my own orchestra.... ( ) !PEACE! ( DC Shown aka "Dizzy" ) xxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx ( xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx ) http//:www.deviant.org/ ( * ---------- > From: "A. Mukerjee" <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> > To: <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>, <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> > Subject: (amb) YOur comments appreciated! > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 96 21:20:28 -0500 > >A friend asked me a few days ago, how I was able to stand >ambient/electronic music. After explaining to him that I wsn't STANDING >it, but enjoying it, he asked my how I listened to it. I explained that I >listened to this "boring" with a different mindset than I would >commercial/mainstream tunes. > >BUT....this question struck me. I have wondered about this for awhile, >but it seems that only now have I gathered my thoughts, although you may >find this rambling still quite chaotic:). > >Ambient/electronic music and its diversion from the standard convention >of composition and comprehension, has truly made an impact on my life. It >has allowed me to grasp new and somewhat "alien" conecpts in earnest and >with an open mind. If there is anything I enjoy more than the music, it >is the ability to walk down the street and listen to the 'soundtrack' of >life. There have been many times where i have heard a sound, and it >struck me as something beautiful; I have said to my friends countless >times, "Damn, I should've sampled that!". I have even learned to force >myself to appreciate sounds that initially would annoy me - I feel I can >MAKE almost anything become a work of music. Some of you may think that >it is quite perverse to have to refit something into the framework of >music for me to enjoy or tolerate it. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. What >do you all think? > >Sorry for the rambling.... > >A. Mukerjee >Vassar College > > >"Laws are like cobwebs; where the small flies get caught but the big >break ones through." > - Unknown > > >